Lost & Found ― The Cuny Poetics Document Initiative, Series 1

Literary Nonfiction. Poetry History & Criticism. Poetics. LOST & FOUND features extra-poetic work—correspondence, journals, critical prose, and lecture transcripts—by New American Poets, with their precursors and followers. SERIES 1 features Amiri Baraka & Edward Dorn: Selections from the Collected Letters, 1959-1960; The Correspondence of Kenneth Koch & Frank O'Hara: 1955-1956 (Parts I & II);Darwin & The Writers: Muriel Rukeyser; Philip Whalen's Journals 1957-1977: Selections (Parts I & II); andThe 1963 Vancouver Poetry Conference Robert Creeley's Contests of Poetry with selections from Daphne Marlatt's Journal Entries.

Edited, annotated, and with accompanying essays, Bob Holman has said "These books are gems. The idea is genius." Diane di Prima has called the series "a gold mine" and Joanne Kyger writes: "What a brilliant cast of characters. Just exactly what one (myself) would like to read." Presented as an integrated set of chapbooks, LOST & FOUND is essential reading that proposes new and alternative versions of literary and cultural history.